Monday, December 14, 2015

Cinder: Review

Cinder: The
Lunar Chronicles Book 1 by Marissa Meyer

Upon repeated
recommendations of this young adult novel, I finally gave it a try without
reading the jacket cover or having any other expectations of its premise other
than it was clearly a Cinderella spin off.

The first 20
pages I thought I would throw in the towel and call this one a spade. I am not the intended audience for young
adult novels anyway, so it takes a special one to catch my interest. Generally – Cinder being no exclusion – the writing
is simpler for a lower reading level and the story line is fairly predictable.

Cinder is set in
the future and the main character, Cinder, is a cyborg. I am not terribly interested in robots and
hover crafts in any form of entertainment.
However, unexpectedly the Plague entered the story line.

As a teenager,
my favorite movie was Outbreak, and I LOVED biology class. I especially loved diseases and viruses, the
deadlier the better. If not for my equal
distaste for Chemistry, I could have pictured myself working at the CDC.

When Cinder took
this slant, I was hooked, and by the end the subtle but teasing plot line and
characters had me hooked. If I didn’t
already have two different library books sitting on my table to read, I would
already have rushed back to the library to check out the next one in the
series. It will be on my list for my
next trip.

Cinder is for
you if you like adventure, science fiction stories. While I flew through this book – both because
the simple language makes it an easy read and I wanted to know how it turned
out – it was still relatively predictable.
I still enjoyed it, but if you’re looking for a literary masterpiece
this is not it. If you’re looking for a
nail biter, edge of your seat kind of book, this is not it.

If you’re
looking for a light hearted, lose yourself in a different world read, give this
one a try.